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+//
+// Copyright © 2017 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <backends/neon/workloads/NeonWorkloadUtils.hpp>
+
+#include <boost/optional.hpp>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+arm_compute::Status NeonDepthwiseConvolutionWorkloadValidate(const TensorInfo& input,
+                                                             const TensorInfo& output,
+                                                             const DepthwiseConvolution2dDescriptor& descriptor,
+                                                             const TensorInfo& weights,
+                                                             const boost::optional<TensorInfo>& biases);
+
+} // namespace armnn